Reviews for The Robert Louis Stevenson Originals

The average rating for The Robert Louis Stevenson Originals based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-07-27 00:00:00 Jaquan Carthen i thought this book was very well done and well thought out. I have a masters in international affairs and i am huge fan of the harry potter books. i found most of thier argument and analysis interesting and infomrative from adn IR point of view. some of it might ahve been a bit of a stretch but i thought the chapters on Mass media marketing and religion were particularly interesting.unfortunatly the sections that fopcused heavily on the content of the harry potter books were not always correct. there were simple mistakes that made we wonder how well the authors really read the harry potter books. for example, the incident with the troll happens in thier first year not second and is in no way connected the large amount of rule breaking that takes place throughout the second book. also harry does not lose the game where he is hit by the rouge bludger, nor is he playing against Cedric, he loses against cedric when he collapses becasue of the dementors. these mistrakes are simple and say to me that the author did not properly research thier source material. Finally the chapter on conflict was extremely interesting, however the information contained in the seventh book completely negates their argument. it is not the fault of the authros but they make some concrete statments about the role of the state in the conflict of harry potter that the events of book seven totally dispell. i do think that for someone interested in international affairs and a fan of the books or movies in any way, would enjoy this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-07-16 00:00:00 User Novell A friend (who is also a fellow goodreader) introduced me to the book.. unintentionally! Anyway, this is indeed a good way to introduce International Relations as an academic subject to a wider community. I think the idea of putting forth Harry Potter books as a global phenomenon to mark the current international trend, and later on to make the plot in the successful series an analogy to international political system, is brilliant. Those who already take IR as their major academic study, however, may find the discussion in this compilation not so new.